Sometimes that awareness brought with it wary intuition. Faustite felt it himself — an inexplicable sourness in his mouth, creeping like a pall, staining his palate. He kept walking. He moved away from the taste. Yet it haunted him, remained steadfastly hooked into his tongue. He swallowed and tasted that sourness over again. Seconds, like he just vomited. Like he'd do so again.
Faustite forced himself up the stairs, through their broken corridors, across the better parts of the old Citadel that remained ghosts of their selves, not yet wholly transformed by the surrounding cavern devouring it. He crossed from cave crystal to stone to cave crystal again, then to stone and finally wood. Here, the halls stayed lit with crystalline bouquets that sat upon sconces. Their purple light diffused through the area, chasing away shadows, dulling the different shades of black and rot to a muted purple. He knocked, and the sound fell dead. It never echoed.
Negaspace, he decided, was too strange a reality to dislike. It defied expectation, choked away sentiment, but kept a ravenous beauty that mocked nature in how it grew and twisted and changed.
Faustite wasn't kept waiting, however, and was ushered into Axinite's office on a word. The knob twisted in his hand, half-ready to quit its gilding and dump it into his palm, and the door protested the move, but he crossed the threshold without incident. The door closed with an unearthly quietude behind him, and the ambience of his surroundings shifted drastically.
Axinite preferred his space like hearth and home, after all. "General King," came Faustite's raspy, tenor voice. The same show of reverence expected rote and mimicked perfect came next. "You wanted to see me."
the space cauldron
tl;dr: Remarque delivers to the GKs some information on the fight between Faustite and Sinope. Axinite has therefore summoned Faustite to his office to confront this rivalry aspect. This RP redirects Faustite's focus to more Negaverse-useful affairs, like the Rift mission.
For the GK discussion, here's some guidelines that would be primo for Faustite:
Yes -- Impersonal explanation of politics, that his skillset is better spent on more relevant targets, things that diminish the value of going after Sinope, reinforcement that Faustite is a protected agent (as in if Sinope tries more funny business, the GKs would know about it). Slapping him on the wrist for having escalated in the first place is fine though that will have an emotional impact
No -- Explanations centering on Faustite personally, like that he should stop for his own sanity/protection. Avoid specificity to him as an agent because there's no personal relationship yet established between him and any of the GKs. Don't overtly treat him with kid gloves even though this whole affair between him and Sinope is super juvenile.
Axinite has ICly been researching technology things+crystals so WHILE MY IDEA MIGHT NOT BE AS WELL FORMED ATM he might be able to ask if Faustite could pry himself from his revenge and help him retrieve some s**t from the Rift because not only is it a better application of his time and skills, it could benefit the Negaverse as a whole.[…] But if he needs crystals from the Rift, while a generic target...I mean, if there's a youma down there that's said to have special abilities or something, and it is so old it has crystals growing off of it, and axinite is like 'this youma seems to have x ability but i want to test the crystals growing on it since they seem related, so if you need a team to go investigate, give me a list of names. But you have a unique physiology that makes you more suited to this than any other agent. You're looking at a few days in the Rift probably, as it will require tracking the creature down and acquiring the crystals/etc' //then he/they get the crystals and after some tinkering they make a limited number of one-time-use items to be distributed among the group that participated in the mission, making them test subjects of it+possibly allowing the item to be released at a later date if needbe/or they simply can't ever find the youma again to recreate it/etc.
For the GK discussion, here's some guidelines that would be primo for Faustite:
Yes -- Impersonal explanation of politics, that his skillset is better spent on more relevant targets, things that diminish the value of going after Sinope, reinforcement that Faustite is a protected agent (as in if Sinope tries more funny business, the GKs would know about it). Slapping him on the wrist for having escalated in the first place is fine though that will have an emotional impact
No -- Explanations centering on Faustite personally, like that he should stop for his own sanity/protection. Avoid specificity to him as an agent because there's no personal relationship yet established between him and any of the GKs. Don't overtly treat him with kid gloves even though this whole affair between him and Sinope is super juvenile.
Axinite has ICly been researching technology things+crystals so WHILE MY IDEA MIGHT NOT BE AS WELL FORMED ATM he might be able to ask if Faustite could pry himself from his revenge and help him retrieve some s**t from the Rift because not only is it a better application of his time and skills, it could benefit the Negaverse as a whole.[…] But if he needs crystals from the Rift, while a generic target...I mean, if there's a youma down there that's said to have special abilities or something, and it is so old it has crystals growing off of it, and axinite is like 'this youma seems to have x ability but i want to test the crystals growing on it since they seem related, so if you need a team to go investigate, give me a list of names. But you have a unique physiology that makes you more suited to this than any other agent. You're looking at a few days in the Rift probably, as it will require tracking the creature down and acquiring the crystals/etc' //then he/they get the crystals and after some tinkering they make a limited number of one-time-use items to be distributed among the group that participated in the mission, making them test subjects of it+possibly allowing the item to be released at a later date if needbe/or they simply can't ever find the youma again to recreate it/etc.
